Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knee and indigestion; big Leo Barnhorst said he had a sprained ankle and Johnny Brennan complained of a sore throat. Last week, with stiff upper lips and handsome gold uniforms, Underdog Notre Dame (beaten seven times this season) limped out on the floor at Madison Square Garden to play hot-shot N.Y.U., only undefeated college team...
...York's Irish, and eventually embracing whole armies of subway sentimentalists) out-yelled N.Y.U.'s although it was N.Y.U.'s home town. They groaned as one when the Irish fell nine points behind. N.Y.U.'s Coach Howard Cann sent out an order to play slow, safe and cozy...
...Franken has a pretty good eye for all the detail of middle-class family life-the rich son, the poor son; the huffiness and stuffiness; the furnishings and food. But anything in The Hallams that isn't made of velvet or mahogany seems made of cardboard. Whenever the play abandons the household for the heart, whenever it exchanges class or clan reactions for personal emotions, it becomes feeble, trite or depressingly empty...
Even by June, when Evans plans to close Man and Superman on Broadway after the longest run (some 270 performances) a Shaw play ever enjoyed, the royalties will not stop rolling in: Evans will take the play on a 57-city road tour. And this week on Broadway, the Theatre Guild will present Shaw's You Never Can Tell...
Command Decision. Hard-hitting war play (TIME...